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Keeping databases in sync
Article from Issue 174/2015
As your data volume grows on your home computer, you can quickly and easily create a reliable backup using FreeFileSync.
Thanks to digital cameras, MP3 players, and smartphones with HD video capabilities, users can easily fill up their terabyte-sized mass storage devices. The stored data often includes irreplaceable material, such as photos from birthday parties or holiday videos. Thus, it becomes even more important to back up your data so that it's not lost if the hard drive fails. Traditional backup solutions, however, are often cumbersome to operate and can overwhelm home users with a wealth of functions they don't need. This is where FreeFileSync [1], which is aimed specifically at private users, comes in.
First Use
Most common distributions have FreeFileSync in their repositories, and you can usually install it easily using a package manager such as Synaptic or YaST. However, if the current latest version (6.13) is important to you, you will need to download it from the project website. There, the developers provide both customized tarballs for some large distributions as well as the source code for a manual build [2].
After successful installation, FreeFileSync appears in the menu structure with a starter, which you can click for easy access. The intuitively designed program window will catch your eye when you first start it. The menubar is in the header with the toolbar underneath. The two buttons Compare and Synchronize particularly stand out; the cogwheel buttons next to them can be used to access the corresponding settings. A routine for creating filter criteria is hiding behind the button with a funnel icon. The software also has a small statistics display at the bottom right. The main window with its three panes displays the directories to be synchronized and a checklist.
The first step is to determine which disk or directories you want to include in the synchronization. To this end, above the lists, you'll see an input field where you can enter the respective paths. By clicking on Browse to the right of the input fields, you can select the paths using the integrated file manager. To get an overview of the differences of the existing databases, click on Compare. You can control the behavior by clicking on the cogwheel next to it. The selections include, among other things, which method the software uses to compare the databases. Available options are file content, date stamp, timestamp, and file size. Depending on the size of the scheduled backup, synchronizing the contents of the file can take a lot of time. In the test, the software compared about 25-30MB per second. Thus, it's advisable to make the default comparison by date and size for larger volumes of data.
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After you click Compare, the program lists the files contained in the directories and subfolders of the source and target that are missing on the other side. An overview window to the left also shows the percent differences, ordered by the directories concerned. You will also find a column with three elements between the file lists. The checkbox lets you exclude individual files and directories from the sync; the action set in the program is shown in the right-hand column (Figure 1).
Figure 1: Clicking Compare displays in the main window which files and folders the program intends to synchronize.
Keep in mind that a continuous comparison of source and target disks can take a long time, especially when using flash memory cards and USB memory sticks. This increased amount of time required is caused by inferior-quality memory chips often used for removable storage devices, which only allow relatively low speeds for reading data and even lower write speeds. For reasons of data safety, it is not advisable to use such media as a primary storage when backing up important data.
Using the integrated filter options, you can define certain file formats or search paths that you want the tool to include or exclude explicitly during the synchronization. To this end, press the button with the funnel icon at top center in the program window. You can determine the criteria and apply them by clicking OK in the straightforward dialog box (Figure 2).
Figure 2: In the filter dialog box, you can determine explicitly which files, file types, or directories you would like to include or exclude from the synchronization.
Mirror, Mirror …
You need to adjust the synchronization settings to receive a complete mirror copy of the source medium when first synchronizing the databases. To this end, the program provides several variants after clicking on the green cogwheel next to Synchronize. Choose the Mirror option for the first sync (Figure 3). The software mirrors all data from the selected path to the backup medium. This step also includes delete actions if the path already contains data. After pressing OK, the software synchronizes the lists displayed and shows statistics bottom right in the program window about the databases it is deleting, overwriting, or recopying.
Figure 3: In addition to defaults such as Mirror and Update, the program allows you to implement your own synchronization methods.
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On the left in the Overview pane, the program window displays all the folders in alphabetical order with the respective percentages of data to be modified. Click on the folder in question to see more information about which databases will be deleted, recreated, or overwritten in the listed directories. FreeFileSync now changes the display in both list windows so that only the selected folder and its subdirectories appear in it. Green symbols arranged line-by-line between the list views show you what happens to the respective file.
You can determine which actions the windows display in the lower section next to Select view. The available options are copying in one direction or the other and displaying identical files that remain unchanged. The software then correspondingly updates the list views so that you can see an overview of how the software will handle these files, with just a few clicks of the mouse; this is especially useful for extensive databases.
After subsequently clicking on Synchronize, the program again opens a small window that displays the pending actions for you to check. Press Start Fasttasks 2 53 km. in this window to start the sync process (Figure 4). By default, the software adopts the synchronization requirements you adjusted in the Compare settings. To change this, click on the cogwheel to its right and adjust the values to suit your needs.
Figure 4: Before synchronizing the data, a small window again displays a quantitative summary.
The software displays a progress indicator in a dialog box during the synchronization run so you can follow its progress (Figure 5). The list views remain empty because the databases no longer differ from each other after synchronization.
Figure 5: The progress indicator keeps you informed about the synchronization.
It is no longer necessary to mirror the complete database to synchronize directories that have been synchronized in the past. For one thing, depending on the synchronization interval, each sync can take quite a while to complete; for another, you are overwriting data despite it having identical content. It is therefore advisable to shift from Synchronize to Update in the configuration menu. The software now only copies new databases from left to right or those that have changed since the last sync. The statistics display shows that the database to be copied is significantly smaller than it would be for a complete mirror image.
Semi-Automatic
The Custom button in the Synchronization Settings dialog lets you create individual rules so you can synchronize your databases more flexibly than with the three preset options Two-way, Mirror, and Update. To this end, click the corresponding option on the right in the Action line. This way, you can synchronize databases simultaneously in both directions, for example, without having to start a second process (Figure 6).
Figure 6: In the Synchronization tab, your own rules let you synchronize simultaneously in both directions without having to start a new process.
The software immediately displays any errors that occur during data synchronization. Typically, it gets stuck when using different filesystems. Errors can build up especially if one of the two storage devices uses FAT32. You can safely ignore the error messages at first and sort out the remaining problem cases manually once the process has completed, because the software leaves non-synchronized files in the list window.
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TLDR; Dropbox is the recommended sync method.
2Do supports synchronization between multiple Macs, iOS and Android devices running a copy of the app. With sync set up, your lists and tasks will appear on all devices without any extra effort on your part.
2Do supports a number of popular cloud sync solutions: Reminders (iOS 12 and below), Dropbox, Toodledo and CalDAV Lightwave license file. (most 3rd party servers are supported). There are, however, a set of caveats with each of these sync methods. The main problem stems from the fact that 2Do supports far more properties / meta-data for a task than any of these cloud solutions. Things like Tags, Smart Lists, various Recurring options, Alerts, Embedded sounds and pictures are the kind of extra information you can assign to your tasks in 2Do, but not all of this data is supported by Toodledo or CalDAV for example. You can find out more about each sync method and its associated caveats in the following sections:
Sync using Dropbox (Highly recommended - for rock solid, problem free syncing)
Advantages
- Supported by iOS, Android and macOS.
- Supports multiple devices syncing using the same Dropbox account without hiccups
- All List Groups, Lists, Smart Lists, Tag Groups, Tags (including Paused), Tasks along with their attachments will sync across to other devices running 2Do. (Note: List Groups and Tag Groups are currently only support by v3.0+ on iOS and v1.5+ on Mac OS).
- Fast, automatic sync in the background
- Dropbox sync is based on our own cloud sync solution and is extremely reliable, problem free and will sync all your data without any 3rd party constraints
Caveats
- Dropbox does not have a web-interface for managing tasks. This really isn't an issue if you only ever use your devices to manage and sync your tasks.
Sync using Reminders / iCloud (over CalDAV)
Warning: Reminders no longer syncs over CalDAV starting with iOS 13 / Catalina. Read more here.
Advantages
- Supported by iOS, Android and macOS
- Your lists and tasks from the Reminders app (on iOS or Mac) will automatically sync with 2Do (with exceptions, see caveats).
- You will be able to create tasks using Siri on iOS (iPhone / iPad / iPod)
- You can access your synced tasks online using a browser (www.icloud.com)
- Syncing is Fast, and 2Do will automatically be able to perform sync in the background or at various intervals
- Your lists and tasks will sync with any other client connected to your iCloud CalDAV account
- Pictures and audio notes from 2Do will sync across to other devices running 2Do
- Multiple alarms on a single task in 2Do will sync across to Reminders as-is
Caveats
- There are limits to the number of tasks and calendars you can store and create in Reminders, which can be easily exceeded if you do not have periodic deletion of completed tasks switched on in 2Do (which is OFF by default).
- List Groups from 2Do will NOT sync across to other devices running 2Do. You will have to manually re-create them.
- Tag Groups will NOT sync across to other devices running 2Do. You will have to manually re-create them.
- Paused tags will NOT sync across to other devices running 2Do. You will have to manually pause them on other devices.
- Smart lists from 2Do will NOT sync to the Reminders app (on iOS / Mac) nor will these sync across to other devices running 2Do. You will have to manually re-create them.
- Tags from 2Do will not appear in the Reminders app.
- Unused Tags and Tag Groups will NOT sync across to other devices running 2Do.
- Unused Locations will NOT sync across to other devices running 2Do.
- Audio and picture attachments in 2Do will not sync to Reminders or to other devices running 2Do.
- Projects and checklists from 2Do will appear as simple tasks in Reminders but will, however, sync as projects and checklists to other devices running 2Do.
Sync using Toodledo
Advantages
- Supported by iOS, Android and macOS
- You can access your synced tasks online using a browser (www.toodledo.com)
- If you have a Toodledo Pro / Plus account, your projects and checklists from 2Do will sync as projects and checklists to Toodledo
- Use email to create tasks and sync with 2Do. Toodledo gives you a unique email-address to which you can email tasks. This allows you to add tasks to Toodledo (and thus to 2Do) from any email client. You can even use Siri to compose these emails for you.
- Tags will sync from 2Do to Toodledo
- Repeating tasks will sync to Toodledo
Caveats
- Automatic background sync is not available as an option. You will have to click on the Sync button each time you wish to sync. This is because Toodledo puts a limit on the number of times a device can sync (along with the number of tasks that it can sync at one time) and will suspend the account if it's syncing too often. If automatic background sync is important to you, please explore the other sync options such as Dropbox or iCloud.
- List Groups from 2Do will NOT sync to Toodledo or other devices running 2Do
- List colors do not sync across devices.
- Smart lists from 2Do will NOT sync to Toodledo
- Projects and checklists from 2Do will appear as simple tasks in Toodledo if you don't have a Toodledo Pro / Plus account but will, however, sync as projects and checklists to other devices running 2Do
- Only tags assigned to a task in 2Do will sync across to Toodledo. Unused tags will not sync.
- Paused tags will NOT sync across to other devices running 2Do. You will have to manually pause them on other devices.
- Audio and picture attachments in 2Do will not sync to Toodledo or to other devices running 2Do
- Alarms from 2Do will not sync to Toodledo
- Emoji UTF-8 characters cannot be used in task titles or notes as Toodledo does not support them.In fact, ToodleDo will replace Emoji characters with question marks, and all tasks that had an Emoji will be duplicated: one will have the Emoji, the other will not.